... and Cuban embassy officials were allegedly overheard talking to Oswald about killing Kennedy, and, so, the plan to kill the President was possibly 'hatched or encouraged' by the communists there. On the day of the assassination, Elena Garro de Paz, the primary source of the story, was whisked away to the Hotel Vermont by a Mexican security officer Manuel Calvillo, who kept her incommunicado for a week 'for her own protection'. In contrast, Sylvia Duran was twice arrested and violently interrogated by Mexican security officers until she confessed to having a sexual affair with Oswald. In subsequent interviews with Anthony Summers, Gus Russo and now Shenon, Sylvia Duran adamantly denied ever meeting Oswald ...

... were fake. At that point, the FBI shut the book on the entire affair. It seems obvious that this was one of those inter-agency games of Blind Man's Bluff that bedevil the US Deep State. The FBI realised it had simply blundered across an officially-sanctioned disinformation project and that it was in the interests of national security to keep it under wraps. The long and the short of which is that the 'burned memo' cites documents that have been comprehensively debunked by everyone who has ever investigated them properly. However, the 'burned memo' does seem to relate to an apparently genuine memo from President Kennedy – the aforementioned memo of 12 November 1963, released ...

... conveyed this to the cabinet in ways that exaggerated the impact non-compliance might have on the UK economy, and a ceasefire was then decided upon. But the UK and France could clearly have completed occupation of the canal zone before any US fiscal action kicked in. The UK commander reckoned it would take 'up to' 11 November to secure all the objectives. The difference, then, was about carrying on for a further 2-3 days; in any event, even if the US started an oil embargo against its main allies, the UK had de facto access to oil supplies from Kuwait and Qatar – and France had direct access to those from Algeria. It ...

... - to-north-korea-where-preconceptions-and-reality-collide/>. at Mount Everest.12 I wonder if the North Koreans learned about the Everest trip as I did? All it took was a little bit of Googling. (Presumably while the population of NK are denied access to the Western Net the security services are not.) If they do know this extra information, I wonder what conclusions they might have drawn? There can be few better times for a covert meeting than New Year's Eve. I don't think it would be surprising if the NK government had a suspicion that Danny Gratton was working for MI6, perhaps as a member ...

... condition. In political terms we are not even entitled to this information since it is per se private property, free only for those who own it. Ultimately this means the only claims sane people can make on their governments is that they do or do not do certain things, which have a real economic impact: e.g . secure incomes or the basic needs for everyday life For real human beings. Of course that is where the central conflict begins. The 'world economic system' to which not only the Portuguese journalist refers is not designed to satisfy real economic (basic needs of everyday life) problems. It is designed to satisfy the needs of legal entities called ...

... documents that are being withheld (i .e . there are no further papers). However, what has really struck me, after reading Garrick's article, is how the continuing denial I am experiencing is based on the FCO using not Provision 23 of the FOIA (which covers 'Information supplied by, or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters') but, instead, Provision 27 (which covers 'International Relations'). The argument from the FCO – and, by direct association, from MI6 – is that the release of the additional names would harm current or future relations with other nations and that: 'The FCO has argued that the fact that the requested information ...

... of President Nixon, did not involve any use of the US FOI Act anyway. Ford's attempt to use Watergate as an excuse to 'smother' FOI managed to achieve the opposite, with Congress passing a series of enhancements strengthening the FOI Act rather than weakening it. Nate Jones is director of the FOI project run by George Washington University's National Security Archive (ironically abbreviated to NSA), a cross-disciplinary effort between academics and journalists which (to cite the project's own raison d'etre)'….combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S . documents (" the world's largest nongovernmental ...

... . Secretary of State to collaborate with the Secretary of Defense, Director of National Intelligence and other federal agencies to create a Global Engagement Center "to lead, synchronize, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United States national security interests." '31 The final steps will be to compel Facebook, Google et al to incorporate a US state-determined list of 'fake news' sites into their systems and then, using those programmes, to refuse access to sites on that list. Holt again 31 <https://consortiumnews.com/2017/ ...